New planning director joins Tritax Symmetry 
Tritax Symmetry has appointed Sinead Turnbull as new planning director in the company's Northampton office in UK. Turnbull joins the logistics development company from DLP Planning where she headed up the Rugby office. Prior to that, Turnbull was senior planning officer at... more
LUG Aircargo handling gains co-managing director
The supervisory board of LUG Aircargo handling has nominated Rainer Wittenfeld as co-managing director of LUG. In this role, he will support Patrik Tschirch, who has been leading LUG for the past eight years. In addition to his new role, Wittenfeld will retain his position as... more
Turnpoint braves the crisis
Turnpoint, a French specialist for execute search in the logistics industry, continues to provide its usual high-quality service for its customers during the Covid-19 crisis. Cyrille Raynal, Turnpoint's co-director, explains: "Some recruitments have been put aside,... more
Damco appoints Mike Meierkort as head of Americas
Mike Meierkort has been appointed head of Americas, Damco, as the freight forwarder launches a new cargo rescue programme in the USA, with two service offerings to help ease supply chain congestion caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Based in Chicago, Illinois, Meierkort has... more
MOL unifies tankship companies
MOL has announced that its wholly owned management companies for tankers, MOL Tankship Management (Asia) (Molta; managing director: Toshihiko Ota; headquarters: Singapore) and MOL Tankship Management (Europe) (Molte; managing director: Ikutoshi Kato; headquarters: London) will... more
Choice Logistics names Robb Porter as chief customer officer
Choice Logistics CEO Matthew McKeever has announced that the US-based company has named Robb Porter as its chief customer officer. In this role, he is responsible for developing and deploying a comprehensive customer strategy to maximise customer acquisition, retention and... more
Sirka Hintze new CFO in the Leschaco Group
Sirka Hintze has been appointed new CFO of the Leschaco Group. She joined the group as incoming CFO on 1 September 2019. Since October 2014, Rainer Barthel has held the position of CFO. He will retire at the end of this year and until then will work on projects and support... more
Csafe: Jeannette Wong for life science sales in Singapore
Csafe Global, a provider in active temperature-controlled container solutions for the transport of life-enhancing pharmaceuticals, has announced that Jeannette Wong has officially joined the company as director of life science sales – Singapore. Csafe has been building its... more
Heinrich Grieshaber dies
After a brief and serious illness, Heinrich Grieshaber passed away on 29 March 2020 in the clinic Friedrichshafen (Germany). He was 71 years old. As founder and former chairman of the management board, he most recently served Grieshaber Logistik as chairman of the supervisory... more
Kai Althoff to become new CEO at 4flow
From the beginning of May 2020, Kai Althoff, one of the company's founders, will assume the position of CEO at 4flow, a provider of logistics consultancy, logistics software and 4PL services. Althoff's predecessor Stefan Wolff, also a co-founder, will join the supervisory board.... more